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Ideal two-dimensional electron systems with a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in real materials : Surfaces of bismuth tellurohalides. / Eremeev, S. V.; Nechaev, I. A.; Koroteev, Yu M.; Echenique, P. M.; Chulkov, E. V.
в: Physical Review Letters, Том 108, № 24, 246802, 13.06.2012.Результаты исследований: Научные публикации в периодических изданиях › статья › Рецензирование
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Ideal two-dimensional electron systems with a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in real materials
T2 - Surfaces of bismuth tellurohalides
AU - Eremeev, S. V.
AU - Nechaev, I. A.
AU - Koroteev, Yu M.
AU - Echenique, P. M.
AU - Chulkov, E. V.
PY - 2012/6/13
Y1 - 2012/6/13
N2 - Spintronics is aimed at actively controlling and manipulating the spin degrees of freedom in semiconductor devices. A promising way to achieve this goal is to make use of the tunable Rashba effect that relies on the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron system immersed in an inversion-asymmetric environment. The spin-orbit-induced spin splitting of the two-dimensional electron state provides a basis for many theoretically proposed spintronic devices. However, the lack of semiconductors with large Rashba effect hinders realization of these devices in actual practice. Here we report on a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in two-dimensional electron systems that reside at tellurium-terminated surfaces of bismuth tellurohalides. Among these semiconductors, BiTeCl stands out for its isotropic metallic surface-state band with the Γ̄-point energy lying deep inside the bulk band gap. The giant spin splitting of this band ensures a substantial spin asymmetry of the inelastic mean free path of quasiparticles with different spin orientations.
AB - Spintronics is aimed at actively controlling and manipulating the spin degrees of freedom in semiconductor devices. A promising way to achieve this goal is to make use of the tunable Rashba effect that relies on the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron system immersed in an inversion-asymmetric environment. The spin-orbit-induced spin splitting of the two-dimensional electron state provides a basis for many theoretically proposed spintronic devices. However, the lack of semiconductors with large Rashba effect hinders realization of these devices in actual practice. Here we report on a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in two-dimensional electron systems that reside at tellurium-terminated surfaces of bismuth tellurohalides. Among these semiconductors, BiTeCl stands out for its isotropic metallic surface-state band with the Γ̄-point energy lying deep inside the bulk band gap. The giant spin splitting of this band ensures a substantial spin asymmetry of the inelastic mean free path of quasiparticles with different spin orientations.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.246802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.246802
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862564479
VL - 108
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 24
M1 - 246802
ER -
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